Emilee Hines

Virginia's Remarkable Women (eBook, ePUB)

Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How did Virginia become the amazing state that it is today you may wonder? Virginia's Remarkable Women: Daughters, Wives, Sisters, and Mothers Who Shaped History recognizes the women who shaped the Old Dominion. The lives of female teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the state are illuminated through short biographies.

Discover fifteen extraordinary women from Virginia's past, including Pocahontas, Martha Washington, Dolley Madison, travel writer Anne Newport Royall, pioneering banker Maggie Lena Walker, Civil War spies Belle Boyd and Elizabeth Van Lew, and poet Anne Spencer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781493016068
• Artikelnr.: 44763730

Autorenporträt

By Emilee Hines

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Introduction Pocahontas America's Princess Martha
Washington The First First Lady Elizabeth Henry Russell Madame Russell
Dolley Madison America's Hostess Anne Newport Royall Travel Writer
Priscilla Cooper Tyler From Actress to Acting First Lady Belle Boyd and
Elizabeth Van Lew Virginia's Lady Spies Maggie Lena Walker Banker and
Philanthropist Edith Bolling Wilson Acting President Ellen Glasgow
Best-selling Author Nancy Langhorne Astor Member of Parliament Anne Spencer
Heaven's Virginia Lucy Randolph Mason Labor Organizer Bibliography Index